Pitfalls of the Ubuntu bug tracker - Was: volume past 100% and vol control

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:47:14 -0600, C de-Avillez wrote:
>So being able to discard duplicates is bad?

You neither need a dmidecode nor an IP to do this, all you need is the
bug tracker account name of the user. Any other statistics are
irrelevant, data mining is bad.

>The difference is searching for knowledge, or accusing us -- the
>Ubuntu project -- of being malicious. Which is, at the end, what you
>were doing. And which I flatly refuse to accept.

I explained that Ubuntu servers could be hacked. Other bug trackers are
not using automated tools, so developers explicit explain to remove
passwords and similar unneeded information, hence it doesn't matter if
somebody get illegal access to the bug tracker.

It's not a matter if you trust Ubuntu, it's important not to trust the
Internet.

This could happen to the bug tracker too:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-forums-hacked-1-82m-logins-email-addresses-stolen/